The Horizon

Legendary jockey leaps through hurdles

IUS Horizon • January 29, 2012

In honor of National Mentoring Month, the Center for Mentoring welcomed Pat Day, Hall of Fame jockey, to speak about his life’s successes on and off the race track on Jan. 13 in the Hoosier Room. Since its creation at the Harvard School of Public Health in 2002, January has been declared National Mentoring Month, a time when people across the country are encouraged to show gratitude to those in their lives that have shown them direction and guidance. June Huggins, director for the Center of Mentoring, said Jan. 26 is Thank Your Mentor Day, and people celebrating will write personal letters to their mentors to thank them for the various ways in which they have been supportive. She said a mentor can be anyone — a teacher, a church member, a neighbor or a relative.

Year of Dragon dances through IUS campus

IUS Horizon • January 29, 2012

The Adult Student Center and Children’s Center celebrated the Year of the Dragon as a part of the Chinese New Year on Jan. 23. Once every month, various offices within IU Southeast take turns hosting the Diversity Brown Bag Lunch series to raise awareness on diversity. Wanda Gregory, coordinator of the Children’s Center, explained the purpose of the event.

Artist draws on experience

IUS Horizon • January 23, 2012

To kick off 2012, the Ronald Barr Gallery opened with the “Drawing on Experience” exhibit by Emily Sheehan, artist and visiting assistant professor of fine arts, on Jan. 11. Seven works are represented in this show. All the works are based on the same concept of perceptual drawing, or, in other words, drawing from observation in a multi-sensory way. “I completed three of the works in the show prior to my coming to teach at IU Southeast,” Sheehan said. “The rest of the work in the show is brand new, completed in my campus studio space in the last six months.”

Spanish Club livens up fiesta

IUS Horizon • December 4, 2011

The Spanish Club hosted their first event this semester. A fiesta was held in honor of Day of the Living in the Game Room on Nov. 17. Alexina Wilson, Spanish junior and president of the Spanish Club, said their Day of the Living fiesta was just a play on the Mexican holiday, Day of the Dead. “The holiday is meant for gatherings of family and friends to remember loved ones who have died,” Wilson said.

Comedian makes student attendance butt of joke

IUS Horizon • November 28, 2011

On her tour of 100 colleges, Tracey Ashley, comedian, visited IU Southeast on Nov. 15 after flying into Albany, Ind., and driving a total of five hours to get to campus. “I just rode in a car for five hours, just drove all this way, and there are 22 people here,” Ashley said. Ashley said her acts are just about her life. However, the theme of the event seemed to be more about the size of the crowd that actually showed up for the event.

Ogle Center brings Agatha Christie’s ‘Mousetrap’ to life

IUS Horizon • November 13, 2011

The New York Times claims it is, “one of the most skillfully written murder mysteries ever produced.” It is Agatha Christie’s “Mousetrap,” and, no, it is not the board game. “Mousetrap” is play centered around a group of strangers stranded in a boarding house during a snow storm, and one of whom is a murderer. The IUS Theater Department debuted the play on Oct. 28 in the Robinson Theatre of the Ogle Center. Rehearsals started back in September for Mousetrap.

Student strives to unify various labs on campus

IUS Horizon • November 13, 2011

Kevin Evans, special education junior and Student Government Association vice president, is currently working on getting information from the math, science and language labs centralized on one website in order to save students time from having to visit multiple sites. “I feel that it is beneficial to students to have all of these resources located in one place instead of having to click around a bunch of different links,” Evans said. “Right now, if you go to the Student Development Center website on the left hand side, you have to go all the way down to the bottom of the page.” Math, language and science are not the only labs offered at IU Southeast.

IUS employee turns illnesses into story

IUS Horizon • November 6, 2011

When diagnosed with rheumatoid arthritis and Fibromyalgia in 2005 at the age of 38, store manager of the IUS Bookstore, Julie Faulds, could have just thrown in the towel. Instead, she wrote a book. “‘Chronically Positive’ is part memoir and part self help,” Faulds said. “It is based on my journey after being diagnosed with both illnesses.” Neither rheumatoid arthritis nor fibromyalgia have a cure.

Golden Eagles fall to Grenadiers

IUS Horizon • October 30, 2011

IU Southeast’s volleyball team ended their two-game losing streak with a 3-1 victory over Spalding University in the Activities Building on Oct. 20. “We felt very good going into this match,” Lesley Drury-Prather, IUS volleyball head coach, said. “Last time we played them, they took us five sets. We wanted to come in and play better than we did last time.” PJ Cockerell, junior right side hitter said the team knew their strategy before the game started.

Former Grenadier signs contract with NBL

IUS Horizon • October 23, 2011

Rick Bodiford, former Grenadier guard, signed his first professional contract with the Quebec Kebs of the National Basketball League of Canada. Bodiford graduated from Eastern High School in Middletown, Ky., in 2005 and went on to play for the Grenadiers from 2005 to 2007 and from 2009 to 2011. The 6-foot-4-inch guard is No. 8 on the school’s all-time scoring list with 1,400 points. He finished with 583 rebounds and 170 assists, making the KIAC All-Conference team last season.

Scottish artist sews passion into quilts

IUS Horizon • October 23, 2011

The room instantly brightens up when she walks in. She gives hugs and chats quietly with all of her guests in a gentle Scottish accent, putting a smile on each face. Her long, flowing skirt reaches all the way down to her ankles and sways back and forth as she walks. She wears no makeup. Her face is just an open canvas, sprinkled here and there with a natural wrinkle or two. Her name is Penny Sisto, an internationally-recognized fabric artist from the Orkney Islands off the northern tip of Scotland.

International studies senior experiences travel

IUS Horizon • October 2, 2011

John Heimer, international studies senior, has seen every single continent except Antarctica. Heimer said due to his career as an engine mechanic in the military for 21 years, he has set foot in about 50 countries. Growing up, his father was in the Air Force.